It is already July and I am halfway through my reading challenges. The good news is that I am on track to meet my goals. While the reading has been completed, I still need to knock out two more book reviews. I was able to sneak in an additional book in June. How did you do? I would love to hear about what you are reading. Are there books that you think I should be reading? This month I have a diverse collection put together. Come and check out my reading list and read along with me.
This month I am focusing on a wide array of books. Some are related to education, one of the men from Band of Brothers, a bibliography, and one to help my business, Tubarks Consulting.
Here is what is on my reading list for July 2018:
Old School, New School, No School: Re-Calibrating Higher Education
I picked this book up while attending the Association for Talent Development conference. Knowing that there is a disruption in higher education, I am always trying to learn more. I was curious to see what these authors had to say on the topic.
Via Amazon:
While “old school” lectures, assignments and specialized silos of academic pursuits support legacy structures, emerging ecosystems are rapidly spawning new fields of study and careers that didn’t exist a decade ago. Simply pasting cloud-based interfaces onto existing courses or handing out mobile devices will not by itself do justice to the transformational processes at play. An experiential, interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial approach is called for. Such college environments augment each student’s journey and serve as platforms for their prosperity—to coach and guide, challenge and inspire while providing access to expertise and opportunity that would be unknown otherwise.
Whether they start as freshmen or transfer in after gaining real-world experience, today’s students invent new, professional versions of themselves through the practices they put in place in college and refine thereafter. Regardless of what is assigned in class, students succeed when they create roles for themselves to play with their peers. By doing so, they discover fresh possibilities and colleagues with whom to actualize their dreams. Colleges can better prepare students for the accelerating changes taking place in the economy, the environment and in society by recognizing and honoring the ways students learn, how they mentor each other, and how they adapt themselves to the challenges they face. These processes have not been well-defined or deeply explored, until now.
Old School, New School, No School guides those college administrators, faculty, counselors, and parents who seek to prepare students for the accelerating changes taking place in the world around them.
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
On the way to the Association for Talent Development conference, Bernadette and I stopped by the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site. We had an opportunity to learn more about President Roosevelt. He is someone who I have had on my list for a while. I decided this was an opportunity to get a book about him.
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Although Theodore Rex fully recounts TR’s years in the White House (1901–1909), The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins with a brilliant Prologue describing the President at the apex of his international prestige. That was on New Year’s Day, 1907, when TR, who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of the White House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands, more than any man before him. Morris re-creates the reception with such authentic detail that the reader gets almost as vivid an impression of TR as those who attended. One visitor remarked afterward, “You go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talk—and then you go home to wring the personality out of your clothes.”
The rest of this book tells the story of TR’s irresistible rise to power. (He himself compared his trajectory to that of a rocket.) It is, in effect, the biography of seven men—a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician—who merged at age forty-two to become the youngest President in our history. Rarely has any public figure exercised such a charismatic hold on the popular imagination. Edith Wharton likened TR’s vitality to radium. H. G. Wells said that he was “a very symbol of the creative will in man.” Walter Lippmann characterized him simply as our only “lovable” chief executive.
A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us
This book is part of my deep dive into learning more about the men of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 10st Airborne Infantry Division. This is the second book authored by Brotherton, the first being Shifty’s War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell “Shifty” Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter From the Band of Brothers. I really enjoyed how he wrote.
Via Amazon:
After chronicling the personal stories of the Band of Brothers in We Who Are Alive and Remain, author Marcus Brotherton presents a collection of remembrances from the families of the soldiers of Easy Company—and how their wartime experiences shaped their lives off the battlefield.
A Company of Heroes is an intimate, revealing portrait of the lives of the men who fought for our freedom during some of the darkest days the world has ever known—men who returned home with a newfound wisdom and honor that they passed onto their families, and that continue to inspire new generations of Americans.
The Business Podcasting Bible: Wherever My Market Is… I Am
Creating a podcast is still on my things to do list. I am looking for strategies that will help me be as successful as possible from the beginning. What I really need to do is just start 😉
Via Amazon:
Like the Web and email, podcasting—technology for distributing audio and video on the Internet—represents a paradigm shift in how businesses communicate with prospects and customers. Although substantial media coverage has stimulated corporate interest in podcasting, its newness and apparent complexity have made businesses wary of entering the fray. The Business Podcasting Bible is designed to ease this process, particularly for marketers looking to increase sales and deepen their relationships with customers. Each chapter uses case studies to cover a different aspect of podcasting. Topics range from podcast metrics to premium and sponsored podcast models to such nuts-and-bolts concerns as how to syndicate a podcast and what kind of equipment is necessary for setup. The book includes informative sidebars, statistics, easy-to-read charts and graphs based on the authors—proprietary research, along with a glossary, resource appendix, and links to Web resources.
That’s it for this month — I want to hear what good books YOU’VE read lately! Please share in the comments below.
I encourage you to check out these reading lists in case you missed them: January, February, March, April, May, and June. There was a lot of good reading.
My Reviews for This Reading List
- Book Review: A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories About the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us
- Book Review: Old School, New School, No School: Re-Calibrating Higher Education
- Book Review: The Business Podcasting Bible: Wherever My Market Is… I Am
- Book Review: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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